Volcanoes and Earthquakes
What are coastlines or boundaries of tectonic plates?
The name of the proposed supercontinent from 200 million years ago
What is Pangaea?
What are tectonic plates?
The line of underwater volcanoes in the middle of the Atlantic
What is the mid-ocean ridge?
Tectonic plates vary in these two things
What are shape and size?
The name of the group of volcanoes that surround the Pacific Plate
What is the Ring of Fire?
What are South America and Africa, or North America and Africa?
The source of heat in the Earth's convection cycle
What is the Earth's core?
The age of the ocean floor that is closer to the mid-ocean range (compared to the floor that is farther away)
What is younger?
The geologic feature that happens at transform boundaries
What are earthquakes?
The island of Hawai'i was formed by the Pacific plate moving over this thing
What is a hotspot?
A word describing a climate that is not too hot and not too cold
What is temperate?
What is cold?
Where new plate material is created
What is a divergent boundary or a gap between ocean floor plates?
The difference between oceanic and continental plates
What is thinner and denser, or thicker and less dense?
The prefix that means "relating to earthquakes"
What is seism-?
RANDOM: What ethnicity is Ms. Park?
What is Korean?
The hot, soft rock layer that lies under the Earth's crust
What is the mantle?
RANDOM: The number of dogs that Ms. Park has
What is three?
A subduction zone occurs when these two plates converge
What are an oceanic plate and continental plate?
The name of the volcano that erupted in 1980 in Washington state
What are the fit of continents, animal fossils, plant fossils, glacial evidence, corresponding rock sequences, or Antarctic climate change?
RANDOM: Ms. Park's birthday
What is January 6?
Free response: How did ocean floor spreading address the weakness in Wegener's continental drift theory?
Full points for answers that mention the weakness (how did continents move through ocean floor?) and the solution (the ocean floor moved with the continents)
The plate that goes under (or subducts) at a subduction zone
What is an oceanic plate?